On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:27:31 -0800, Phil Hagelberg <technoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> writes: > > > By having prerelease versions of soon to be stable software in nix, we > > support people who provide addons or config in adapting them. > > I agree. I distribute a lot of my own elisp packages using package.el, > the built-in package manager that is new in Emacs 24. So I try to > encourage my users to upgrade to 24, and since Debian dropped their > emacs-snapshot packages, I would like to recommend nix as an easy way to > get the latest without having to wait or build their own. > > > I would not do it for every software we have in nix, but as long as > > there is one person actually using the prerelease and therefore updating > > in case of bugs, I think we should have it. That said, I'm happy to use > > and help in maintainting the prerelease expression. > > I will definitely be using it if it gets added. I'll try to help > maintain it too, though I'm still figuring nix packaging out myself. > > Marc brings up an important point of deciding on an update frequency. I > don't care about tracking upstream trunk too terribly closely; even > updating every week or two would be plenty for me.
I'd take a pragmatic approach: use the most recent version when it's added, updated if somebody feels like or something is broken that is fixed with a newer version. -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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